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KBOO Evening News: Monday October 3, 2011

Airs at: Mon, 10/03/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
  Top headlines on tonight's newscast:   Three hundred thousand gallons of raw sewage spill into the Willamette River when a generator malfunctions at a West Linn water treatment facility.   A KBOO reporter talks with a prison advocate about Pelican Bay state penitentiary’s ... Read more

Report from Wall Street protest

Airs at: Mon, 10/03/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
The “Occupy Wall Street’ protests in New York continue for the third straight week, despite over seven hundred arrests.  Protesters say they are confronting the corrupt financial system.   Despite the ongoing police crackdown, hundreds more people joined today’s marches, an... Read more

Libya: Qaddafi, the neighborhood bully? NATO, the mafia?

Airs at: Thu, 09/15/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Fight the Empire
 Per Fagering connecting history with the latest world events focusses on Libya, and ponders "Who's worse, the local thug or a shadowy organization with tentacles everywhere?"  He starts out with an article from Afro: "Walter Fauntroy, Feared Dead in Libya, Returns Home—Gue... Read more

Michael Hudson looks at lender fraud, corruption

Airs at: Thu, 09/15/2011 at 10:00am - 10:30am
Produced for:  Fight the Empire
Host Per Fagereng interviews Michael Hudson, Staff Writer at iWatch News about the legacy of corruption that still plagues Bank of America and a pattern of fraud at Countrywide Financial Corp., once the nation’s largest mortgage lender. Michael Hudson covers business and ... Read more

Democracy Movement comes to U.S.

Airs at: Thu, 09/15/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Presswatch
Theresa Mitchell with the "news you're not supposed to know." New tar balls in Gulf. BP now "the boss" there.  Media under-reports severity of Fukushima--nuclear disaster is ongoing. We need to take measures to take care of ourselves. U.S. records highest poverty rate ever.... Read more

Occupy Wall Street! Occupy Portland! Do Something!

Airs at: Thu, 09/29/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Presswatch
Theresa Mitchell with the news you're not supposed to know.  This week Theresa is inspired by "Occupy Wall Street!"   Also, new oil sheen in Gulf of Mexico -- oil leaking from giant cracks from BP disaster? Read more

Queen of the United States

Airs at: Thu, 09/22/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Presswatch
Presswatch host Theresa Mitchell tells what she would do if she were queen of the United States.  Plus, "Occupy Wall Street" updates, headlines and listener calls. Read more

"Railroaded:The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America," historian Richard White

Airs at: Fri, 09/16/2011 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Radiozine
 Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America "Bundled securities...phony annual reports...bribed politicians...a crashed economy. These familiar-sounding conditions are just part of the legacy of the men who built the 19th century transcontinental ... Read more

labor protests in Longview, Wash., and dabble in Gen-X cultural milestones.

Airs at: Tue, 09/27/2011 at 12:00am
 Hosted by Abe Proctor and Joe Uris When the bottom fell out of the financial markets in 2008, lawmakers rushed to bail out the architects of the global crash. But this begs a question -- when will we decide to bail out the collapsed labor market? Abe and Joe examine the ... Read more

Ben Ross, co-author of THE POLLUTERS, on the chemical industry's impacts on health and environment

Airs at: Mon, 09/19/2011 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Radiozine
Roberta Hall of Health and Health Care Forum hosts a conversation with Ben Ross, co-author of "The Polluters: The Making of Our Chemically Altered Environment", which examines the history of the chemical industry's impacts on health and the environment. Benjamin Ross and ... Read more